1923 Geographia Pictorial Map of London, England

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Description

This is a wonderful plan or pocket map of London published c.1923 by Geographia Ltd. It covers downtown London from the Hammersmith Bridge and Wormwood scrubs eastward past Hyde Park and Buckingham Place to Whitechapel Road and the London Docks. Unlike most English city plans of the period, this map replicates the pictorial style which popular in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.

The map features many of the buildings of London drawn in three dimensions. Gardens and parks are beautifully rendered in green with illustrations of ships sailing in the Thames River. Bridges, museums, cathedrals etc. are also identified. Insets in the lower right and lower left depict Theaterland and Cinemas, respectively. Both insets detail individual establishments as they existed at the time including the Regal, Marblearch Pavilion, The Palladium, the Hippodrome Theater and the Coliseum Theater, among many others. Notes stations on the London Underground. An index in the top left quadrant notes several places of interest. Published in London at 55 Fleet Street, London by Geographia Ltd.

Cartographer

Geographia, Ltd. (fl. c 1910 - 1985) was a London based cartographic publishing firm. The company was founded by Alexander Gross (1879-1958), a Hungarian immigrant to the United Kingdom. Geographia is best known for its folding pocket maps and globes. Later in the early 20th century, Geographia expanded with offices in New York at 11 John Street and issued a large corpus of U.S. focused maps and city plans. In the later part of the 1980s the firm was bought out by Harper Collins and continues to produce maps under the Collins Bartholomew imprint.

Condition

Very good. Minor wear along original fold lines. Folds into its original paper binder.

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